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Blue Fairylicious Girl🧚 @bluesnowflake.bsky.social · 12h

Mike Johnson is the human form of the feeling you get right before you puke

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🩸Spooky Sara🩸 @pashion.bsky.social · 2h

A poster of inspiration that shows art of a girl turning into a cheetah morphing into a big wild cat and it reads "I am done with Self Care
It is time for Others Harm"

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Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 8h

mean liberal: nice car, weiner. did it come with a divorce

me in my Cybertruck: no. my ex wife gave that to me. computer, please take note of another injustice I’ve suffered

computer: confirming your destination is the Hoover Dam. cruise control set to 97 miles per hour

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Bryan Wood @brwtwit.bsky.social · 2h

I hate this. This is not how fish work

𝙹*𝚊𝚍𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝙼𝚊𝚐𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚎 🍏 @artmyoldfriend.bsky.social · 13h

“Don’t Panic Organize”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Johnson: "Grijalva should be working for her constituents right now. I don't know what she's doing. I keep seeing their political stunt videos. She should be in her office. She should be working or in the district for her constituents" (Grijalva is not in fact a Rep. b/c Johnson refuses to seat her)

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Bryan Wood @brwtwit.bsky.social · 2h

Weird how most of these guys are all of the party of personal responsibility and fiscal conservatism

NOTUS @notus.com · 6h

Politicians whose campaigns still owe large sums, according to October FEC filings:
- Newt Gingrich: $4.6 million
- Al Sharpton: $925,000
- Rick Santorum: $983,000
- Mehmet Oz: $25.5 million
- Mike Pence: $127,000

via @davelevinthal.com & @taylorgiorno.bsky.social
www.notus.org/money/politi...

Deadbeat Political Campaigns Still Owe Creditors Millions

Old campaigns of also-ran politicians remain hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in debt. Will they ever pay?

www.notus.org

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 13h

ICE's military raids and masked kidnappings are resonating deeply/negatively in the cultural spaces we keep hearing Dems need to reach: Manosphere, Joe Rogan, country music, disengaged voters. That's rare and it gives Dems a big opening to engage.

Thoughts on this:

newrepublic.com/article/2018...

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Bryan Wood @brwtwit.bsky.social · 2h

Hunter S. Thompson would be in Jan Wenner's office with a 45 threatening to burn the place to the ground if you made him come into the office

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 8h

2. Rolling Stone is owned by a large media conglomerate, which is ending remote work across its brands.

My home is Portland, Oregon, ~1,000 miles from the nearest office, so this marks the end of the line for me at RS.

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Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 8h

Only in the Federalist Society academic bubble could you say that the government going in and splitting up geographically contiguous communities of Black voters in order to prevent them from ever being a majority in any House district is "government not taking race into account."

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 20h

Almost every day someone tries to catch me in a gotcha by asking if I want more of my tax dollars to go towards disabled & homeless people

Yes I do

It’s often those of us who have the least who give the most

The rich hoard their wealth whereas many struggling folks will give you their last dollar

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Bryan Wood @brwtwit.bsky.social · 2h

#weirdcarbs contractually obligated "see a moondisc, share a moondisc" post

(that's my wife and her first car)

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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 6h

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 4h

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
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Investigation of:
LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ON JUNE 18, 2023
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Accident No.:
*********** * * * * * *
Interview of:
Co-designer/Pilot
Deepsea Challenger
DCA23FM036
via Microsoft Teams
Friday,
July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF
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BY LCDR
11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible
12 operations?
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A.
Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic.
When I
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set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did
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was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible
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program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named
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Professor
I. I did that through a mutual friend
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of ours, a guy named
, who is one of the preeminent
underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a
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submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the
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Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was
22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

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Bryan Wood @brwtwit.bsky.social · 2h

Looking back, it is pretty obvious that the logo was based on food chemist, My Classic Car host, and mustache enthusiast Dennis Gage who worked on the project back in the day

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Bryan Wood @brwtwit.bsky.social · 3h

No time to lose! I need to go buy some chips!

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savealfira.bsky.social @savealfira.bsky.social · 5h

There is no version of Mad Max in any decade wearing a hat. Especially any kind of bowler hat? Fedora? And a handlebar mustache?

Why is Tesla so, so bad at this? This is not the hard part of the assignment

Tesla menu icon of a guy wearing a hat with a handlebar mustache who looks nothing like Mad Max. Labeled "Mad Max"

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Bryan Wood @brwtwit.bsky.social · 3h

Why is the icon for "Mad Max" Mr Pringles wearing a cowboy hat? My vote would be for Lord Humongous

Electrek @electrek.co · 7h

Tesla brings back ‘Mad Max’ ‘Full Self-Driving’ mode that ignores speed limits

Tesla has brought back its ‘Mad Max’ mode for its ‘Full Self-Driving (Supervised) that ignores speed limits amid several regulatory investigations into Tesla’s system being dangerous. more…

electrek.co

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Bryan Wood @brwtwit.bsky.social · 3h

Please give that poor 65 year old man back his sperm and testosterone

Bryan Wood @brwtwit.bsky.social · 3h

I have often joked about opening a club in LA called DMV. The whole experience would just be standing in line all night, since people seem to enjoy that so much.

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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 6h

Gateway is the largest infrastructure project in the country, terminating funding will limit our whole nation’s potential.

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Bryan Wood @brwtwit.bsky.social · 3h

SNW is really doing great things. There was no rational need for them to shoot fake bloopers and outtakes from the fake 1960s show for the holodeck episode, but they served them up anyway

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 3h

Tapping

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 5h

Ok fine it’s longer than 6 words but this is the greatest short story ever written.

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 12h

in the annals of silicon valley startup pivots, "ok, fine, you can fuck the superintelligence" is one of the very funniest

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h

ALTMAN, 10 months ago: "I'm proud that we don't do sexbots to juice profits."

www.reddit.com/r/artificial...

From the artificial community on Reddit: Sam Altman, 10 months ago: I'm proud that we don't do sexbots to juice profits

Explore this post and more from the artificial community

www.reddit.com

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 3h

While acknowledging that what Trump is doing is wrong, we should also remember to stand up for our constitutional right to not ever give a single fucking shit about John Bolton.

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